Airports/California/Placerville Airport
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Placerville Airport until 10 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Placerville Airport is 72° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 28°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 60° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 83°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 61°. Rain is possible Wednesday (31%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:28 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Placerville Airport, California.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Placerville (CA), 3 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 40, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 3,914 ft | 76 ft | Asphalt | 63° / 243° | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from Placerville (PVF), Placerville Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
76 F at 8 PM Thursday; 83 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 57 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 24 F, the air 14% saturated; the humidity ran from 14% at 8 PM Thursday to 28% at 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
30.19 inHg at 8 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
10 miles or more every hour.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Placerville: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Placerville Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
PlacervillePVF
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/2,585 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
PlacervillePLCC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.3 mi away/1,801 ft/784 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/15.6 mi away/3,212 ft/627 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Placerville 0.9 NECA-ED-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/2,036 ft/549 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Placerville 3 EnePEDC1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.0 mi away/2,612 ft/27 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.